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Will Deacon authored
Commit 66dbd6e6 ("arm64: Implement ptep_set_access_flags() for hardware AF/DBM") ensured that pte flags are updated atomically in the face of potential concurrent, hardware-assisted updates. However, Alex reports that: | This patch breaks swapping for me. | In the broken case, you'll see either systemd cpu time spike (because | it's stuck in a page fault loop) or the system hang (because the | application owning the screen is stuck in a page fault loop). It turns out that this is because the 'dirty' argument to ptep_set_access_flags is always 0 for read faults, and so we can't use it to set PTE_RDONLY. The failing sequence is: 1. We put down a PTE_WRITE | PTE_DIRTY | PTE_AF pte 2. Memory pressure -> pte_mkold(pte) -> clear PTE_AF 3. A read faults due to the missing access flag 4. ptep_set_access_flags is called with dirty = 0, due to the read fault 5. pte is then made PTE_WRITE | PTE_DIRTY | PTE_AF | PTE_RDONLY (!) 6. A write faults, but pte_write is true so we get stuck The solution is to check the new page table entry (as would be done by the generic, non-atomic definition of ptep_set_access_flags that just calls set_pte_at) to establish the dirty state. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+ Fixes: 66dbd6e6 ("arm64: Implement ptep_set_access_flags() for hardware AF/DBM") Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Reported-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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